End public unions!

At The Daily Beast:

As vice chairman of Public Strategies and president of Maverick Media, Mark McKinnon has helped meet strategic challenges for candidates, corporations and causes, including George W. Bush, John McCain, Governor Ann Richards, Charlie Wilson, Lance Armstrong, and Bono.

With the Wisconsin showdown at a fever pitch, Mark McKinnon says America doesn’t need public unions anymore—they silence voters’ choice, redistribute wealth, and clog the political system.

The manufactured Madison, Wis., mob is not the movement the White House was hoping for. Both may find themselves at the wrong end of the populist pitchfork. While I generally defend collective bargaining and private-sector unions (lots of airline pilots in my family), it is the abuse by public unions and their bosses that pushes centrists like me to the GOP. It is the right and duty of citizens to petition their government. The Tea Party and Republicans seek to limit government growth to protect their pocketbooks. Public-union bosses want to increase the cost of government to protect their racket.

Read the whole thing.

Osama on unions and cuts

Obama: Not Good When The "Rights" Of Public Employees Are Infringed

"I don't think it does anybody any good when public employees are denigrated or vilified or their rights are infringed upon," President Obama said.

Right. These "rights" were give at the pleasure of the people they work for, and are not the same as the rights in the Constitution that Osama seems only apply when the government feels like it.

Liberal protesters == DENSE

Unbelievably so:

Wisconsin teachers explained

Found at Market Ticker:



Speaking of unreasonable people, Mr. Denninger has another article worth reading. Good snark, and true.

Theft of Social Security numbers

Interesting link to the article at Support Your Local Gunfighter

I didn't realize that your birth city and date of birth can enable a good guess at the first five digits of the SSN - so if you give the last four digits, as many websites, particularly banks and credit card companies require, you risk giving them the whole number - and the access to your personal data that implies.

The real reason for teacher's unions!

Includes some interesting video of a union lawyer telling the truth:

Some interesting insight into the NEA

Impossible shot?

Not for our Army snipers - even at age 84.

Brought tears to my eyes.



H/t New Jovian Thunderbolt

TSA hits a new low

Harassing people AFTER they get off the train. Idiotic.

Union busting YES!

Some more details on OsamaCare

Scary.

HOW much was spent on the last election?

There's some squawking about Governor Walker accepting donations from "billionaire-owned Koch Enterprises".

How much did he get from Koch's Americans for Prosperity? $43,000 out of $11 million total he raised - or 1/10 of 1% of the total 34 million spent for all the candidates.

Here's the breakdown. Scroll down and enlarge the chart.

Interesting how many donkeys there are in there, ain't it?

Here's why we cannot have teacher's unions

It's very simple:

Two-Thirds of Wisconsin Public-School 8th Graders Can’t Read Proficiently—Despite Highest Per Pupil Spending in Midwest

Tuesday, February 22, 2011
By Terence P. Jeffrey

Students from Appleton West High School protest a proposal by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker that would make teachers pay a fraction of their own pension and health-insurance costs. (AP Photo/Sharon Cekada)

(CNSNews.com) - Two-thirds of the eighth graders in Wisconsin public schools cannot read proficiently according to the U.S. Department of Education, despite the fact that Wisconsin spends more per pupil in its public schools than any other state in the Midwest.

Letter to the Editor

To the Beloit Daily News:

I see a fundamental difference in public vs. private unions.

Private unions negotiate with private businesses to reach an agreement as to wages and benefits. The private business has reason to want to limit both to maximize profits.

Public unions negotiate with the government to reach an agreement in a similar matter - but their actual employers are the people of Wisconsin in this case, who have no say in those negotiations except to elect representatives and a Governor who are expected to act in the best interests of the people of Wisconsin.

The people of Wisconsin have sent a strong message to those representatives in the last election, that they want the current system of public unions being able to make demands of the public to end. The unions, understandably, are not happy with this decision. None the less, the people have spoken.

Perhaps we could resolve the issue of unionized teachers this way. Fire them all, and hire replacements from the thousands of qualified unemployed college graduates in the state. Offer them a five-year contract at 1/2 the current wage of the union teachers they replace. Perform regular performance evaluations. Fire them if students do not learn in their classes, give them raises if they do a good job. This will benefit the people of the state by immediately reducing the costs of education, and relieve much of the current unemployment.

If the replaced teachers want to re-apply as non-union teachers, they could, after one year of unemployment - so that they understand the plight of too many of their neighbors who currently pay for all their benefits.

A public job is a privilege, not a right.
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Stole part of the solution from BMEWS. We shall see if it gets printed.

Crowder says it.

Listen:



H/t BMEWS

This says it all

Seen at BMEWS:

"Collective bargaining in the public sector thus is less a negotiation than a conspiracy to steal money from taxpayers."

Right on!

Chicago - BOHICA

You just got Rahmmed.

How long before the riots start?

Pictures from yesterday's rally

Intrepid Moronette Reportage

—Dave In Texas

Heather Radish is on the ground, doing the job most Americans won't do.

Support for our new Governor.

H/t Ace of Spades

A trainwreck in Maxwell: Remember when it was 'bad' to target people?

Three posts from Texas - Wisconsin is the starting point of the next American Revolution?

Ill=Annoys was never like this. I'm glad I moved up here.

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A trainwreck in Maxwell: This video from yesterdays taxpayer funded protest...

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A trainwreck in Maxwell: Now, don't you feel bad?

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